I'd love to see the pic, Chuck -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of DonO Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 6:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [VFB] new mouse - Percy
To my friends at the VFB - an update and some good news. My recovery from the stroke is going very well and quickly. Feeling a little better each day, but it still feels like I was rode hard and put up wet. I have 'issues' with the entire right side of my body, but therapy has given me limited use of the affected areas. I have progressed to a cane for walking, but I'm nowhere mobile yet. My eyesight will take time, but I'm told it will recover- hopefully back to normal. No hope of tying a #32 RC right now. 40% blind (the right side of each eye gone). So that leaves my right hand- the real meat of this memo. I decided to challenge it and myself by tying a mouse pattern as my first try. A 1-hour tie took over 20 hours- lost track of time. Just threading the bobbin took an hour (spastic muscles with no feeling), tying an anchor took 2 hours. You get the picture- not pretty. But out of it crawled Percy (for 'perseverance'). He's not too tightly wrapped, but that applies to the tier also. But he looks good for a Baits Hotel resident. Joyce knows what this fly represent in stroke therapy just 3 months in. Next- rope dubbing. Working on my fly casting also. Not pretty either. Neither is my penmanship. But I did manage to draw a fly if anyone wants to see my 'Picasso'. Regards, Don -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
